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How's VS2005 SP1 beta working for you?

  • Artikkeli

Recently I've been asking people I work with how the VS2005 SP1 beta is going.  I've gotten various responses but the most insightful one was a suggestion to ask my customers which is precisely what I'm doing. I'm really interested in hearing from you on this topic.  Some of the things I'm curious about are:

  • Have you installed it? If so, how'd it go?  If not, why not?
  • What improvements have you noticed?
  • Anything get worse? 
  • What would you recommend we do before shipping this release in the near future?

I'm not looking for specific bug reports...they belong on https://connect.microsoft.com.  Instead, I'm looking for your overall assessment of the release quality and ship readiness.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Jeff

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 01, 2006
    Working great in VC++ here!  Only one bug, and a workaround was found quickly.  Other than that, the only thing that needs improving is the install time.

  • Anonymous
    November 02, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    November 02, 2006
    After installing Sp1 I hoped to see that problems with e.g. creating reports (RDL) would now be solved, but I still get Visual Studio Crashes. Also I hoped that a dreadfull package load error when you want to create a performance session after you run an unit test. I did not notice any problems with VS after installing so the service pack is not breaking anything for me :-) I recommended several coleagues to install and they are also running the SP with success.

  • Anonymous
    November 03, 2006
    Rob Caron on New Team Foundation Server Administrator's Guide. Clark Sell on TFS Event Filtering....

  • Anonymous
    November 03, 2006
    Cory - thanks for the update...glad to hear things are working well for you.  We're investigating the install time issues but it's not yet clear how much we do here given the technology limitations of our current patching system.

  • Anonymous
    November 03, 2006
    D Pilcher - thanks for your comments.  Read my previous comment about install time investigations.  I like your vision of a combined SP1 installer.  We're looking at making significant technology investments in our servicing infrastructure and this seems like a good scenario to consider.  

  • Anonymous
    November 03, 2006
    Marcel - I hope you have reported the RDL crashing issue through http://connect.microsoft.com.  Please let me know what the resolution of that issue is.  Also, I'm interested in learning more about the package load error...has that been reported as well?   It certainly says something to me that you recommended the SP beta to others.   Thanks for the update.

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2006
    Jeff, No noticable problems here, seems to work great. Only issue is the installer really makes my notebook cook. William

  • Anonymous
    November 07, 2006
    William - good to hear that SP1 is working great for you.  We're still investigating the installation issues...unfortunately at this time I don't have any great news to share except that we're still looking at options. Thanks again for the update.

  • Anonymous
    November 13, 2006
    Other than a minor issue with undo/redo buttons in the IDE (which has been reported and resolved in Connect), I haven't found any particular bugs so far. Performance was always the big issue pre-SP1, particularly with large multi-project VB solutions. To be honest I've got so used to it being slow now that it's hard to tell whether things are working well or not! I can safely say that since installing SP1 I didn't exactly think "wow, this is loads faster".   Things like opening a form designer for the first time are still painfully slow. Oh, just remembered - the dataset designer is much faster!

  • Anonymous
    December 07, 2006
    What's the latest on this release? I'm running Vista now, and I'm finding that VS2005 doesn't work great on it. There are some issues with it locking up, and not exiting properly. I'm expecting these are fixed in SP1, but what is the expected release date?

  • Anonymous
    December 08, 2006
    We're getting very close although we are not announcing a release schedule at this point.  Check back with me in a week or so.

  • Anonymous
    December 08, 2006
    Thanks for the reply. I hope the PMs are keeping in mind that there is some pain running VS2005 on Vista, and now that Vista is RTM, folks like myself are running it on dev machines, and we have the expectation that these two products would work well together. Thanks again.

  • Anonymous
    December 08, 2006
    I hear you on the Vista point.  As you would expect, we're using Vista and VS internally and as such are very aware of the pain you're experiencing.  I hope that we can alleviate some of that pain for you in the near future.